Snack Bar: Il Mercato Centrale Opens, Culinary Wars and More Food News From the Week, September 20
Plus, everything on the menu at Victor Liong’s Silk Spoon, where Tedesca Osteria chef Brigitte Hafner eats in Melbourne and a doughnut-cannoli hybrid.
by Audrey Payne · Broadsheet• Prahran Market’s G McBean Family Butcher, is offering lamb butchery masterclasses hosted by third generation butcher Gary McBean. The monthly classes are $495 per person and capped at four people. Participants take home a number of cuts including lamb cutlets, a lamb shoulder and a leg of lamb.
• Ten Minutes by Tractor and Maxwell Wines are teaming up for two long lunches. On Saturday September 21, they’re holding a lunch at Maxwell Wines’ restaurant in McLaren Vale. Then on Friday October 11, there’ll be a collab lunch at 10 Minutes by Tractor on the Mornington Peninsula.
• American Doughnut Kitchen and Cannoleria have teamed up on a jam doughnut cannoli. Stop by any Cannoleria store until Thursday October 3 to try the hybrid dessert.
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• Gluttony, an immersive play set in a fictional restaurant, is returning for a second season following its first Melbourne run in March. The food, wine and theatre experience seats diners in and around the performance space (though no audience participation is required).
This week in food and drink news
• First look: Il Mercato Centrale is open. What you need to know about the Italian food hall.
• All the vendors at Il Mercato Centrale.
• Opinion: all men are responsible for ending sexual assaults in hospitality workplaces. Nathaniel White, co-owner of Goodwater, shares his take.
• Bid on a table at Chae, personalised Jamie Oliver cookbooks and more at Sofia Levin’s MND auction.
• Coming soon: Williamstown’s Morning Star Hotel is reopening with a 1970s California-inspired revamp.
• Victor Liong’s Silk Spoon opens today. Here’s the full menu, from dumplings to roti pies.
• Where chefs eat: Tedesca Osteria’s Brigitte Hafner shares her go-to spot for “off the chart” curries and condiments.
• Oaxacan mole and chipotle flan star at new wine bar Kensington wine bar Arnold’s.
• First look: Rocky Ridge has taken over an old Brunswick East brewery (with CDMX tacos).
• New hire: Albert’s, the wine bar that helped make High Street Armadale cool, has a new head chef.
As seen on the web
• Netflix’s Korean reality show Culinary Class Wars.